Category: Civic Tech
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Civic Elevator Brand & Marketing Strategy
Today at Civic we completed work on our go to market strategy, with a complete take on how we incorporate our recent acquisitions into the corporate identity. Here’s some of the components:
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Facilitator at the inaugural Mayors Leadership Institute on Smart Cities
Over the last two days I helped facilitate the first Mayors Leadership Institute on Smart Cities of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Here’s a snip from the announcement of the Institute: “The drive to make cities ‘smarter’ is all about harnessing data…
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Acknowledgement: CTA API Documentation
Today my colleague Harper Reed and I were referenced in the official API documentation for the Chicago Transit Authority Bus Tracker API Documentation. AcknowledgementsThe CTA Bus Tracker service is powered by BusTime, a product of Clever Devices, Inc. Both the API itself and the majority of this document were produced and developed by people at…
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Participant: The State of Impact in Civic Tech
I took part in some research put created by Omidyar Foundation called, “The State of Impact in Civic Tech“. Here’s a bit of my contribution:
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CUTGroup Book
Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech documents a methodology I invented while I was Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative. The model has been implemented in about a dozen cities across the United States.
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Documenters Session with Honorary Chicago
This evening I helped set up and run a Documenters session for Honorary Chicago. Here’s a snip from a blog post I wrote about the work on the Smart Chicago blog: All of this is a part of digitizing the official records of the streets from City Council data not yet available in digital format to…
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The Essential Civic Whitaker
I edited and published “The @CivicWhitaker Anthology: three years of organizing, writing, and documenting in Chicago civic tech at the Smart Chicago Collaborative”. Here’s my introduction: Hiring Christopher Whitaker to work as a consultant for Smart Chicago was one of the best decisions I made here. Together, we created a new job type— part documenter, part…
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Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech
I edited, published, and wrote the preface for this book, subtitled “Meeting people where they are” while I was Executive Director at the Smart Chicago Collaborative.
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Presentation at Omidyar Ignite: Popularity + Impact in Volunteer Movements Alcoholics Anonymous, Poetry Slams, and the Path to Impact for the Civic Innovation Movement
Tonight I did this Ignite talk, “Popularity + Impact in Volunteer Movements Alcoholics Anonymous, Poetry Slams, and the Path to Impact for the Civic Innovation Movement” at Civic Hall Omidyar Ignite from Daniel X. O'Neil Here it is for download: Popularity + Impact in Volunteer Movements Alcoholics Anonymous, Poetry Slams, and the Path to Impact for…
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Launch: City of Big Data Exhibition